And you know what’s really funny? Mitt’s folks couldn’t even sustain the suspense, such as it was, for a few measly hours — as Teddy mentioned last night, they’re going with conservative darling, Ayn Rand worshipper, and infamous death panelist for grannies, Paul Ryan — because they’re scared to death of losing even a single conservative voter. Used to be that Republicans were base-caterers in the primaries and went more moderate in the general — no more. They can’t do that anymore, not with the crazy base they’ve spent decades poisoning via the Southern Strategy.

Go ahead, shake that Etch-A-Sketch, Mitt. You’re still not going to change the subject for very long — unless you change it to “Gee, how desperate is Mitt Romney to drown out the scandals dogging his campaign? Pretty darned desperate, if he’s pulling this stunt.”